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The city is a bird sanctuary and its code says it is illegal to hunt, wound, molest, injure or kill any bird within its limits.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021

Around 1993, James and Wade told the authorities that Jackson didn’t molest them; and Wade testified in court on Jackson’s behalf in 2005.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2019

Evanier makes a strong case that Allen didn’t molest his daughter — he was never prosecuted — but also undermines it somewhat by approaching the topic with an obvious bias against Mia Farrow.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2015

One couple, trustees in his church, suggested Paden had been coerced into confessing and didn’t molest anyone.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2015

“A big brute like this, he’s worth three times as much. What a bodyguard he will make! No enemy will dare molest you!”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

It is my observation and belief that a grizzly, if physically able, will attack any living thing that molests it or interferes with its routine activities.

From Time Magazine Archive

For man reasons thus: The body or the spirit is vexed by assaults and temptations of Satan, and he troubles or molests it, therefore God is angry with it, and takes no care of it.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin by Grenville Kleiser

Kashmir is truly and indeed the paradise of birds, for there no man molests them, and no schoolboy collects eggs, and the result is a fascinating fearlessness, the result of perpetual peace and plenty.

From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

I will raise the town upon him, if he molests me.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson

In self-defence we had our boots blacked, for the ambulating bootblack molests no longer the owner of a well-polished pair of boots.

From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon

George Gascón announced he recommends they be resentenced after new evidence that they had been molested by their father came to light, which could make them eligible for parole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

He had been dividing his time between Rome and Sydney after he was exonerated in 2020 of allegations he molested two choirboys while he was archbishop of Melbourne.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

The four-time Oscar-winning director of "Annie Hall" and other comedies has repeatedly denied the accusation that he molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, in 1992.

From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2022

Jackson, who died in 2009, was found not guilty in 2005 of charges alleging he had molested a boy.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2019

There was an unwritten law that nothing was to be molested that stood outside the door where it belonged.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Gregory Daniel Beaumarchais, 43, has been charged with one misdemeanor of annoying or molesting a victim believed to be under 18.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

Michael Jackson was eventually acquitted on four counts of molesting a minor.

From Fox News ● Jan. 3, 2022

His testimony helped to acquit the King of Pop of molesting Gavin Arvizo, a child cancer survivor.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2019

By that he meant that Kemp carries none of the baggage of Moore, who was accused of molesting a young woman many years ago, and that Abrams is considerably more liberal than Northam.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2018

“That is none of your business, you waif. Why aren’t you in school? Kindly stop molesting me. Anyway, I have no change.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole